Hey there! Great job with your journaling! I'm one of the VB&F team members, and we got your email request to have your journal reviewed for eligiblity. We'll be shipping out prize packages beginning mid-month! Great job! Hope you'll stick around the forum and continue to post and be a valuable member of this online community!

Wednesday I got on the elliptical for twice as long as usual. 50 minutes on interval! I keep noticing my heart rate. A little over a month ago when I first started back to the gym my heart rate would jump to 155 bpm almost right in to the workout. Now to get even close (150) I have to work so hard I feel like the machine is going to tip over! I've even raised the incline and resistance! I was a smoker for about 13 years (gross). I quit last July 4 and am thankful that I feel my heart getting stronger. I know genetics isn't the strong factor it once was thought to be as far as cardiovascular health is concerned but I AM next in line for the traditional Diehl open heart surgery. I'm the oldest of my generation in the family on my mother's side and it has become a rite of passage it seems to have bypass surgery. No thank you! I plan to have blood work done soon, to recheck my numbers (that have always been pretty decent).

I feel I've hit a plateau on my arms, having made no significant gains in a few weeks. I think it's time to get off the machines and hit the free weights. I just have no idea how to most effectively use them. I'll poke around in here to educate myself. I also have the bodybuilding.com app on my iPhone that has detailed exercise instructions.

I'm taking another rest day from lifting. I hit the gym and did 40 minutes on the elliptical on interval. My son is sick so I am staying home and maximizing his healthy foods intake before he goes back to his mom's and gets milk again.

Back to weights for me. I avoided the machines and hit the free weights. I screwed up some with what I ate. I had way too much to eat during the game. I'm embarrassed to log today's meals but here we go.

Have you posted an recipes yet? Let me know when you do I want to check them out. I am helping check these journals and you have qualified for the prize package. Congrats! Nice work staying with it. Hope you don't give it up just because the month is done.

I'm definitely staying with it. It's great to look back and see what I've done and how I've progressed in only a month! I'm going to start posting recipes soon. I really want to get involved in this community. Food is my area of expertise as I am not the pinnacle of fitness (yet).

I went back to the freeweights again today and I'm totally hooked. Unless I can't figure out what to do then I probably won't be hitting the machines again (except for lower back extensions. I tried those on a bench two days ago and was unsuccessful). Back and Biceps day:

I've fallen a little behind on the journal. I need to get my own computer! I've not fallen behind on my training though. I just need to make time to log it between work, starting my vegan food truck, teaching vegan cooking classes, spending time with my children, and more! This is from Monday February 13.

Went in yesterday weighing less than I have all year! I'm almost wanting to find a circuit training program to follow. I'm watching an Insanity infomercial right now and it's tempting but I know I can find resources here and other online sources that I can use at the gym. I like the gym atmosphere and my apartment is wayyyyyyy to small to do any of these DVD exercise vids. Here was my yesterday:

I ate late again. I need to stop that! I'll look around for tips to curb my late appetite. I crave savory foods late, so an apple wouldn't cut it. I'll suck it up and do it, starting today! If there isn't a secret behind not eating late, I'll just know that if I had started at the beginning of the month curbing my appetite, I'd be in better shape.

Yesterday I was busy with kids, life. I didn't have time to head to the gym, so I stayed home and did a few things.

Workout Log

A series of stretches from the E2 Book

3 sets each of sit-ups, crunches, reverse bicycles. I haven't paid much attention to my abs, and I've noticed that it's the one part on me that hasn't tightened up. I really wish I had taken a picture of myself at the beginning of January, I've already transformed.

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